On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > On Thu, 29 May 2014 14:31:03 -0500 > Dennis Wicks <w...@mgssub.com> wrote: > >> Can't quite figure out how to do this. >> >> I'd like to be able to scan a Volume or directory and find >> all directories that have only one item in them. Either >> directory or file. >> >> Any ideas?? >> >> TIA! >> Dennis > > If you're willing to write a fairly simple Python program it would be > pretty easy. You could probably even do it with a find piped to sort > piped to a very simple AWK script.
Challenge accepted :) import os for root, dirs, files in os.walk('.'): if len(dirs + files) == 1: print(root) That'll search the current directory and all subdirectories. (Change the argument to os.walk() to start someplace else.) Should run in any Python from 2.3 onwards, although I only tested it on 2.7 and 3.5ish. As long as you have Python 3.x installed, it can be done as a shell one-liner: rosuav@sikorsky:~/Gypsum$ python3 -c 'import os; [print(r) for r,d,f in os.walk(".") if len(d+f)==1]' ./.git/info rosuav@sikorsky:~/Gypsum$ ls -la .git/info total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 rosuav rosuav 4096 Feb 20 2013 . drwxr-xr-x 8 rosuav rosuav 4096 May 30 02:33 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 rosuav rosuav 240 Feb 20 2013 exclude (Could be done as a Py2 one-liner, but not as cleanly.) ChrisA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/captjjmqt4ho-p24vkza3zw41icqmvvutsnjdafpqlzrt8cs...@mail.gmail.com